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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE
A. Concept of Language
Language is a system of communication consists of sounds, words, and grammar or the system of communication used by the people of particular country or profession.
Language also is a tool that used by the people to share information and to interact with each other. People use language in any field of their daily activities in their
social life, so that language is showing of someone personality, where they come from and can make them easy to have many relationships with other.
Language is a system for expression of meaning and primary function of language is
for interaction and communication.
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Language is the chief means for the human personality to express themself and to interact with other person. Language is a
system of sounds and words used by human to express their thoughts and feelings.
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Language is the most important thing in communication with others. Language has many advantages in real life, such as to interact with each other, to express the ideas
and language can be used to transfer knowledge and culture.
As everybody knows, language is also as an instrument to express our ideas, feeling, and our thought. One of the languages which are often used as a means of
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Richards, Jack C and Theodore S. Rodgers. 1986. Approuches and Methods in Language Teaching.
New York: Cambridge University Press, p. 17.
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Oxford Advanced Learner Dictionary of Current English,1995: 662
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now more and more people use English as an international language. Language is also used to get knowledge, people can share or transfer the information that they
know to other people through English. From the statement above, it can be concluded that language is very important in our
social life. Through the language we can communicate, interact, share the information and to make a good relationship with other people in human life.
B. Concept of Teaching English as a Foreign Language
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